Description
Book SynopsisDrawing on contemporary accounts of those involved in the trade - printers, booksellers, publishers, and distributors, this work describes the labours through which literature was produced: both the physical labour of making books and the underlying cultural work performed by a set of ideologies about who counted as a maker of texts.
Trade Review"Ms. Maruca's knowledge of the systems, methods, and personnel of the late seventeenth- and early eighteenth-century London publishing world is admirably broad and detailed."
-- James E. Tierney * The Scriblerian, Spring 2011 *
"… whether one hails from an English Department or a History Department, Professor Maruca's research and conclusions offer much to anyone interested in the history of texts and their production.… with the right sources in her capable hands, Maruca makes The Work of Print an eye-opening and excellent study."
* Sixteenth Century Journal *
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments
1. Introduction: Printing Production Values
2. Printers' Manuals and the Bodies of Type
3. Citizen, Hero, or Midwife? Re-presenting the Bookseller
4. From Authorized Print to Authoritative Author: The Regulated Trade
5. The Printer as Author: Samuel Richardson, Intellectual Property, and the Feminine Text
6. The Ghost in the Machine: Invisible Print in a Digital Age
Notes
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